Se Ho Kwak

Smith College, Spinelli Center for Quantitative Learning, Mathematics counselor, 2022, July – present

Colby College, Visiting assistant professor, 2021, July – 2022, June

Colby College, Instructor, 2021 January – June

University of Massachusetts Boston, Associate lecturer, 2021 January – May

Ph.D. Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA. May 2024 (Expected).

M.S. Mathematics, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, 2009.

B.A. Economics, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, 2003.

Microeconomic Theory (Decision Theory, General Equilibrium Theory), Political Economy

• Theory of fundamental uncertainty and its application to financial decision-making
• Indeterminacy and genericity of Sraffian model in general equilibrium framework

Title: Three Essays on Shacklean Decision Theory

Committee: Donald Katzner (chair), Itai Sher, Robert Kusner (outside member, mathematics)

Journal publication

• “Melting of the Euclidean metric to negative scalar curvature in 3 dimension” with Y. T. Kang, J. S. Kim, Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society 49(3), May 2012
• “A simple example of Sraffian indeterminacy in overlapping generation production economies” with N. Yoshihara, Communications in Economics and Mathematical Sciences 2, March 2023
• “Sraffian Indeterminacy of Steady-State Equilibria in the Walrasian General Equilibrium Framework” with N. Yoshihara, Metroeconomica, Forthcoming

Working paper

• “Portfolio adjustment and panic behavior under true uncertainty”, UMass Amherst Economics Working Papers 2022-18
• “A critical reinterpretation of Shacklean decision theory”, UMass Amherst Economics Working Papers 2022-19
• “A Functional Representation of Potential Surprise Ordering”, UMass Amherst Economics Working Papers 2022- 17
• “Sraffian Indeterminacy in General Equilibrium Revisited” with N. Yoshihara, UMass Amherst Economics Working Papers 2019-04

“On Sraffian Indeterminacy of Walras-von Neumann Equilibrium in Economies with Joint Production” with N. Yoshihara.

• “Sraffian indeterminacy of steady-state equilibria in the Walrasian general equilibrium framework”, 71st Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Political Economy, Tohoku Gakuin University, Miyagi, Japan, Nov, 2023.
• “Panic Behavior in Portfolio Adjustment in True Uncertainty” FUR (Foundation of Utility and Risk) conference, University of Technology Sydney, July 2021 (changed to Zoom).
• “Portfolio Selection under fundamental uncertainty in historical time”, Eastern Economic Association, 46th Annual Conference, Boston, March, 2020.
• “A new interpretation of Shacklean decision theory”, New School-UMass Graduate Workshop, New School for social research, New York, Nov, 2019.
• “Panic Behavior in Portfolio Adjustment in True Uncertainty”, Economic Theory Workshop, University of Massachusetts Amherst, December, 2019.
• Session Discussant, Eastern Economic Association, 46th Annual Conference, Boston, March 2018.

Microeconomics, Game theory, Mathematical economics, Statistical methods, Political economy

Sole Instructor, Colby College

• Econ 133: Principles of microeconomics – 2021 Spring, 2021 Fall
• Econ 293: Research methods and statistics in economics – 2021 Spring
• Econ 379: Game Theory – 2022 Spring

Sole Instructor, University of Massachusetts Boston

• Econ 101: Introduction to microeconomics – 2021 Spring

Sole Instructor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Econ 341: Labor Economics – 2017 Spring
• Summer Math camp for incoming grad students – 2015 Summer
• Econ 103: Introduction to Microeconomics (Online) – 2017 Winter, 2018 Winter
• Econ 104: Introduction to Macroeconomics (Online) – 2020 Fall, 2022 Spring
• Econ 203: Intermediate Microeconomics (Online) – 2016 Summer, 2019 Winter, 2020 Summer, 2021 Fall
• Econ 309: Game Theory (Online) – 2023 Summer

Instructor of discussion section, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Econ 103: Introduction to Microeconomics – 2012 Fall, 2015 Fall
• Econ 104: Introduction to Macroeconomics – Spring 2012, Spring 2013
• Econ 203: Intermediate Microeconomics – 2014 Fall, 2015 Spring, 2016 Spring, Fall, 2018 Spring, 2019 Spring, Fall, 2020 Spring, Fall
• Econ 204: Intermediate Macroeconomics – 2016 Fall
• Econ 309: Game Theory – 2018 Fall
• Econ 330: Labor History in American Economy - Fall 2011
• Econ 701: Microeconomic Theory (Graduate) – 2014 Spring, 2015 Spring
• Econ 751: Mathematical Methods for Economists (Graduate) – Fall 2013

Teaching experience in mathematics (individual or group-based meetings), Smith College

• Econ 155: Mathematical Economics
• Math 111, 112, 212: Calculus 1, 2, 3
• Math 153: Discrete Mathematics
• Math 211: Linear Algebra
• Math 264: Differential Equations
• Math 280: Advanced Calculus

Book Translation (Korean Version): The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism by D. M. Kotz, Narum Books, Seoul, 2018

Stata, E-views, MATLAB, Mathematica

Donald W. Katzner

Professor of Economics

University of Massachusetts Amherst

dkatzner@econs.umass.edu

Naoki Yoshihara

Professor of Economics

University of Massachusetts Amherst

nyoshihara@econs.umass.edu

David Kotz

Professor Emeritus of Economics

University of Massachusetts Amherst

dmkotz@econs.umass.edu

Peter Skott (Teaching reference)

Professor Emeritus of Economics

University of Massachusetts Amherst

pskott@econs.umass.edu